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Black and white photograph of a family lined up against a wall, taken from a report on the physical welfare of mothers and children.

Cambridge experts bust myths about family, sex, marriage and work in English history

11 Jul 2024

On World Population Day, 探花直播 of Cambridge researchers bust some of the biggest myths about life in England since the Middle Ages, challenging...

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Year 8 students work with Cambridge researchers to help their peers learn about the census

13 May 2021

Year 8 students work with Cambridge researchers to help their peers learn about the census.

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探花直播man we love to hate: it鈥檚 time to reappraise Thomas Robert Malthus

18 May 2016

Thomas Robert Malthus, who was born 250 years ago, became notorious for his 鈥榩rinciple of population鈥. He argued that, because poverty was inevitable...

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1698 tax list from Shrewsbury

Mistress, Miss, Mrs or Ms: untangling the shifting history of titles

06 Oct 2014

In a paper published in the autumn 2014 issue of History Workshop Journal Dr Amy Erickson unravels the fascinating history of the titles used to...

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鈥淲here you are going is more important than how fast you are going鈥

鈥楲ight skin鈥 gene mirrors socio-cultural boundaries in Indian population

13 Nov 2013

Latest research shows that the presence of the genetic mutation for lighter skin - found in 鈥渁lmost 100%鈥 of Europeans - broadly conforms to many...

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Cookery class - March 2009

Meals for one: how eating alone affects the health of the elderly

19 Oct 2013

EPIC-Norfolk, a long-term study of health and ageing that recently celebrated its 20th birthday, provides researchers with a wealth of data. Annalijn...

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A landmark study of health and lifestyle celebrates its 20th birthday

09 Oct 2013

A landmark longitudinal study of health in the community will celebrate its 20th anniversary in Norwich tomorrow (10 October). 探花直播research, which...

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Dadaab, the world鈥檚 largest refugee camp, on the Kenya-Somalia border.  探花直播Horn of Africa frequently experiences severe drought and hundreds of thousands of people have trekked to Dadaab seeking food, water, shelter and safety.

Feeding seven billion

21 Nov 2012

With the world鈥檚 population already estimated to be over seven billion and rising fast, the challenge of how to produce enough food has never been...

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Vegetables

Food security: your questions answered

31 Aug 2011

Over the past month, the 探花直播 of Cambridge has been profiling research that addresses one of the biggest challenges of the 21st century 鈥 how...

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